House of the Day: 500 Marlborough Road
This new listing at 500 Marlborough Road in Ditmas Park West looks like a lay-up at $1,350,000. The three-story Victorian woodie is in excellent shape as far as the original architectural elements go. (Love those parquet floors!) The bathroom and kitchen also look like they’ve been recently redone in a way that fits with the…
This new listing at 500 Marlborough Road in Ditmas Park West looks like a lay-up at $1,350,000. The three-story Victorian woodie is in excellent shape as far as the original architectural elements go. (Love those parquet floors!) The bathroom and kitchen also look like they’ve been recently redone in a way that fits with the overall vibe of the house. There’s also a shared driveway, to boot. Other than the heating bills, what’s not to like? Is there anything negative we’ve glossed over?
500 Marlborough Road [Mary Kay Gallagher] GMAP P*Shark
I just took a stroll past the house in question. The street is pretty typical for the neighborhood – hardly unattractive. Lots of tall trees and the neighbors seem keen on gardening. I will concede that a Sears siding salesman seems to have hit the block sometime in the past.
If memory serves me correctly, this house was on last year’s Victorian Flatbush house tour. In which case, I have been inside and can tell you that it’s in very good condition and has been lovingly maintained. The kitchen may not be to everyone’s taste, but it’s new and crisp and clean. And not a cheap, off-the-floor Home Depot type. Money was definitely spent on the kitchen and baths.
It is not on the tracks (even numbered houses are on the opposite side of the street). The houses on this block are pretty substantial – deep rather than wide, with large third stories.
IMO, this house is worth close to ask, if not ask.
“I think folks who don’t sign in are more likely to express opinions they would never express in the light of day.”
Yes, but that’s great. It’s a glimpse into what your smiling neighbors really want to be saying. I say no guest is unwanted.
Why do people take any of the comments seriously? It’s all masterbatory. There aren’t any questions on the forum that couldn’t be answered in one second of googling and the news topics don’t really require comment. Face it- you’re bored and you satisfy your need to sound smart, debate, argue, be helpful or be obnoxious by posting. There isn’t one person that is really “out” with their identity, guest or otherwise. Why would you be?
What I don’t understand is why Brooklyn doesn’t have a designated blog for debate- for meaningless intellectual exercises?
I find the whole business with dark vs light text to be absolutely embarrassing. Are we in grade school? If I don’t sign in, will Brownstoner send a note home to my parents?
You would think the advertisers would want the comments cleaned up as well. Currently Brownstoner is walking the fine line between increased pageviews vs. quality discussions. There have been steps in the right direction and hopefully more to come.
Has anyone seen a rate card to put ads on this site? Not cheap and based on all internal brownstoner numbers compared to industry norm where a 3rd party tracking system is used. Warren Lewis has to be getting grandfathered rates…right?
Or are we not suppose to talk about that?
Yes, but a valid email address can be a hotmail or similar address that it takes 20 seconds to create. No problem there.
And yes, please do look over the history of this site (not just a single thread) and just look at where the manipulative, disruptive comments come from. Easily 2 to 1 in favor of people who are signed in.
When you register you have to provide a valid email, which means that your comments can be traced to you directly. Posting with the knowledge that Brownstoner or webmaster can attribute the comments directly to you tends to make people behave in a more civil manner.
Do an informal reading of any thread on this blog that discuss issues of race for instance. See how many of the more incendiary racist comments come from guests vs. logged in members.
I’ll sweep your sidewalk for a week if there are more logged in crackers than guest crackers.
“I think folks who don’t sign in are more likely to express opinions they would never express in the light of day.”
Can you please explain why you think this? When people sign in to this site, they’re asked to create a user ID. The user ID can be anything. They can make it up out of thin air. It need not be their real name or anything even resembling their real name. And if they say something when they’re signed in that they later regret and they don’t want to take responsibility for their words, all they have to do is create some other user ID and voila…they have a new, history-free identity and can start with a clean slate. So, I don’t understand your comment at all.
I never said the house would sell for 1.1 million. Please re-read my post. I predicted it would sell for slightly less than ask. I do not know how much less, as I have not been in the house. If it presents as the listing suggests, I would still slightly less than ask.
I then said that houses in a certain price range sell more quickly than more expensive homes.
I received my information re: largest surviving neighborhood of freestanding woodframe homes from Brooklyn Historian Ron Schweiger (verbally).
Erin Joslyn
BTW – I have logged in as GUEST, rather than Erin Joslyn, because I’m having difficulty registering. Negative guest poster – perhaps you’re having the same difficulty?
Erin Joslyn